USC’s Lincoln Riley and Nebraska’s Dana Holgorsen meet again with a few twists

LOS ANGELES — They are no strangers, first growing together from the late Mike Leach’s expansive Texas Tech tree, their roots splintering off in careening directions only to weave back together.

Eight years after Dana Holgorsen first left Texas Tech, he went toe-to-toe with former disciple Lincoln Riley in 2015, Holgorsen’s West Virginia Mountaineers ran roughshod by Oklahoma 44-24 in Riley’s first year calling plays in Norman. For years to come, they clashed in annual shootouts, Holgorsen...